Macy’s Reviews > The Search For Authenticity; An Existential Analytic Approach To Psychotherapy > Status Update

"commitment is an awareness, an attitude, a clear & feeling-ful recognition of being fully present in the moment, making the choices of the moment, and standing by the consequences of those choices whether anticipated or not."

"the most exquisitely prepared meal can be ruined if we insist on gorging ourselves. the finest wine is enjoyed best when we limit our intake of it."

three main sources of existential anxiety: the threat of death & fate, the experience of guilt & condemnation, and the confronting of emptiness & meaninglessness.

"authentic living is characterized by the dropping away of happiness as a goal in itself. the actualizing person is busy with the concerns to which he has chosen to commit his living and seldom stops to assess his happiness."

"When the therapist is authentic in his own being in the situation and when a genuine dialogue is developing between patient and therapist, the therapist will find his own awareness providing him with the materials for illustrations and demonstrations congruent with his own nature and harmonious with the patient's dominant emotional theme and current needs."

my brain trying to translate the meaning of parts of this book
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